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...there anything dull or docile about Senator James A. Reed of Missouri. Set to nose out the labyrinthine political finances of the Pennsylvania primaries (TIME May 31 et seq. THE CONGRESS,) he tested all winds eagerly for a whiff of larger game. Last fortnight his vigilance was rewarded; he coursed off after the Anti-Saloon League, in the person of its counsel, Wayne B. Wheeler, on the pretext of getting evidence of Wet moneys expended for Candidate Vare. Last week he was not astonished to find that this new quarry had a mate the gentle, bright-eyed Women...
...million striking British coal miners (TIME, May 10, et seq.) all beginning to feel the pinch of living upon meagre union doles, awaited with anxious expectancy last week Premier Baldwin's long heralded address to the Commons outlining proposed legislation to end the strike...
...standard of living unless they would work an extra hour. He proposed merely to suspend for perhaps three years the Seven Hours Act. During that period the coal industry could be put upon its feet by carrying out the recommendations of the Royal Coal Commission (TIME, Oct. 19 et seq.). The Government's offer of a ?3,000,000 ($15,000,000) coal subsidy was still open. It might be better, however, to expend that sum for the relief of miners thrown out of work by readjustments in the industry. If this program were not at once put into...
...Arica, General Lassiter quietly wound up the affairs of the U. S.-chairmaned Chile-Peruvian plebiscitary commission (TIME, Nov. 26, 1923 et seq.). He was hissed and booed by a Chilean mob. The Chilean member of the Commission, Señor Augustin R. Edwards, refused to attend its last session. The Chilean police refused to open the Commission hall. General Lassiter made use of a nearby office. Finally he embarked with his staff aboard the U. S. battleship Galveston, prepared to sail...
...Washington the Chilean Ambassador informed Secretary Kellogg that: 1) Chile considers General Lassiter's conduct "illegal and exceeding the powers vested in him"; 2) Chile will no longer participate in the informal Tacna- Arica negotiations instituted at Washington by Secretary Kellogg (TIME, April 19 et seq...